In the wake of Messiah CompleX, there are no X-Men. Young mutants Rockslide, Blindfold and Dust are alone and directionless until the day Cyclops recruited them to hunt the new incarnation of the Brotherhood - and kill them. Joined by a pair of new recruits, the young X-Men learn a hard truth about the world post-Messiah CompleX: Sometimes old allies make for deadly enemies.